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White recreates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom. Through research, he imaginatively recovers the raucous world of the street, the elegance of the city's African American balls and the grubbiness of the Police Office.

African Americans --- African American theater --- African American actors --- Slavery --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Actors, African American --- Afro-American actors --- Negro actors --- Actors --- African American entertainers --- Afro-American theater --- Theater, African American --- Theater --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- History --- Intellectual life --- Social conditions --- Social aspects --- African Company (New York, N.Y.) --- African Company of New York --- History. --- New York (N.Y.) --- Race relations. --- Black people --- Enslaved persons